Good design holds its own wherever it lands — end of a bed, filled with blankets; a hallway, filled with shoes and wellies. This piece is ready for your interpretation.
A beautifully prescient piece of British mid-century design. Clean, architectural, and quietly confident — this Meredew blanket box lets the material do all the modernist talking.
The form is restrained to the point of severity. No handles, no applied hardware, no decoration. Just teak veneer, clean joinery, and a recessed lid that sits fractionally below the frame. The shadow gap detail feels remarkably contemporary — a feature now common in high-end joinery and kitchen design, resolved here in teak six decades ago. You can imagine the designer’s pencil lines. It arrived fully formed.
Meredew were a Letchworth-based manufacturer with a long tradition of quality furniture making. By the 1960s they were producing pieces that absorbed the Scandinavian lessons of material honesty and formal clarity — this box is a good example of that sensibility applied to a British context.
The interior is generous and well-finished. Structurally excellent throughout. Cleaned and fed with Danish oil.
Condition: Very good vintage
Material: Teak veneer
Maker: Meredew Furniture, Britain
Period: 1960s
